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BAILLER, m Law. See Bailment. 



BAILLET, Adrian, m Biography, an eminent French 

 cntic, was born in 1649, "f "bfcure parents, at Neiiville, a 

 village near Bcauvais. Having completed iiis education in 

 the college of the city, he took holy orders in 1676, but 

 foon quitted the cltrioal profeflion, arid devoted himfelf en- 

 tirely to ftudy. Lair.oignon, prtfident of the parliament of 

 Paris, mad.- him his librarian, and in this (lation he continued 

 till his death in 1706. He was a man of indefatigable ap- 

 plication, and extenfive erudition. As he was always read- 

 ing or writing, it is no wonder that his acquaintance with 

 authors was great, and his works numerous. His principal 

 performance was " Jugemens des Savans fur Ics principaux 

 Ouvrages desAuteurs;" it is a valuable colleaion ot fads and 

 obfervations. In the firll volume he lays down rules for 

 judging of autliors and their prod iftions ; the three fol- 

 lowing, publilhed in 1685, treat of printers, critics, tranf- 

 lators, authors of difcoveries, &c. ; and the next five on 

 poets. The work would have been proftcuted agree- 

 ably to a plan prefented by the author' to the uubhc in 

 1694, if h<^ had not been difcouraged by fevere criticifm and 

 fatire in the Anti-Bailiet of Menage, and other pieces. Aban- 

 doning this defign, he direSed Irs attention to other fub- 

 jeds ; and he wrote, in 1693, " A treatifc on the worfhip 

 of the Virgin Mary ;" another in 1695, " On the Care of 

 Souls ;" " The Lives of Saints" in 4 vob. fol., and in 

 17 vols. 8vo. in 1 701 ; "The Life of Defcartes," in 2 vols. 

 4to. in 1691, and abridged in izmo., in 1692; "The 

 Life of Richer, doftor of the Sorbonne," written in 1692, 

 and pubhflied in 17 14. " The life of Godfrey Hermant, 

 doftor of the Sorbonne," printed at Amilerdam in 

 17 17, i2mo; "An Hiilory of Holland, from the truce 

 of 1609," where Grotius finifhed, " to the pi.ace of Ni- 

 meguen," pubUrtied at Paris, under the name of " Ncuville," 

 in 4 vols. i2mo. 1693 ; " A new and curious Account of 

 Mufcovy," under the fame name, in i.;mo. at Paris, 1698 ; 

 and " An Hiftoi-y of the contelts of pope Boniface VI IL 

 with Pliihp the Fair, kingof France," publifhed by father 

 Long, in i2mo. 1718. The " Jugemens des Savans" was 

 rcvifed and enlarged by M. de la Monnove, member of the 

 French academy, and printed at Pari.;, in 7 vols. 4to. in 

 J 732, and in 17 vols. i2mo. at Amfterdam, in 1725. 



Baillet is often tedious and unintereiting, and culpably 

 negligent with regard to his ftyle. Gcn.Ditl. 



BAILLEUL, John de. Abbe de 'Johrival, was fo famed 

 for his {kill in reducing luxated joints, Haller fays, that 

 his name pafled into a proverb, and an expert bone-fetter 

 was called a Bailleul. Hal. BibCiiirurg. 



Bailleul, in Geography, a town of Fiance, in the de- 

 partment of the North, and chief place of a canton in the di- 

 ftritt of Hazer.brouck ; it was formerly fortified, but is now 

 ■without defence. It contains about 500 houfcs ; three 

 leagues E. S. E. of Caffel, and 4^ W. N. W. of Lille. N. 

 lat. 40° 35'. E. long.2^ 55'. 



Bailleul, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Sarte, two leagues from La Flcche. 



BAILLIAGE, in H'lflory, the name of a government 

 in Swilferland, of which there are two forts : the one con- 

 filting of certain diftrids, into which all the ariftocratical 

 cantons are divided, over which a particular iort of officer, 

 called a bml'iff', is appointed by gjoveninient, to wh^ch he is 

 accountable for his adminiHration : the other Iort is com- 

 pofed of territories belonging to two or more of them, who 

 alternately appoint a bailitf. This officer, when not re- 

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the care of the police, and jurifdiftion in civil and criminal 

 caules in the fame limitatio., • ;,nd enjoys a ftattd revmue 

 arifinjr in different places from various duties and taxes. 

 In cafe of expclion or mal-adminiftration, an appeal alwavi 

 lies from the bailiff to the cantons, to which the bai!liag< 

 belongs; and the place, the lime, and the members u'.o 

 receive the appeal, are regulated with the utmoR exaclnefs. 

 Coxe's Trav. Switz. vol. i. p. 37. 



BAILLIE, Robert, in .8;£>;r/j/>^jr, a Prefcyterian divine 

 of the church of Scotland, was born at Glafirow, in the 

 year 1599, and educated in the univerfity of his native 

 city. After he had taken his degree of mailer of arts, he 

 applied with diligt-ce tothc ftudy <f divinity ; and having, 

 in 1622, received ordeis from arclibifhop Law, he waschofe'n 

 a regent of philofophy in the univerfity of Glafgow. In I'i^j, 

 he modellly declined an offer which was made him ol a 

 church at Edinburifh, and in 1637 refufed to preach a fcr- 

 mon before the affcmbly in this city for recommending the 

 canon and fervice book, then publilhed by authority ; and 

 Hated in a letter to the archbiihop of Giafgow the rcafoits 

 of his refufal. In 1638, he was a member of the famous 

 affembly at Glafgow, which was a prelude to the civil war, 

 and it appears, notwithllanding the modemtion of his con- 

 duct, that he was not deficient in his zeal againft prelacy 

 and Arminianifm. He was a member of the following 

 general alfemblies till 1653, the time excepted during which 

 he attended the Weftminiter affembly. In 1640 he was 

 fent by the covenanting lords to London, to draw up an 

 accufation againft archbiihop Laud, for the innovatioi:» lie 

 had obtruded upon the church of Scotland. Soon after 

 his return, in 1642, he was appointed one of the profeffors 

 of divinity at Glafgow ; and his reputation was fuch that 

 he received invitations before this time from the other three 

 univerfities, all of which he refufed. He retained his 

 profefforfliip till the reiteration ; but was often interrupted 

 in theexcrcife of it by his relidcnce in England ; for in 1643 

 he was chofen one of the commiffioners of the church of 

 Scotland, to the affembly of divines at WeHminfter. In 

 the principles and views of this affembly he feeras to have 

 entirely concuiTed ; he returned, liowevcr, to his own coun- 

 try in 1646. When Charles II. was proclaimed in Scotland 

 after the execution of Charles I., BaiUie was one of the di- 

 vines appointed by the general affembly to wait upon hi*, 

 majelly at the Hague, and in a fpeech delivered on that 

 occafion he expreffed, in the ihongell tenns, hii abhorrence 

 of the murder of the late king, and in his fentiments with 

 regard to this event the Prelbyterian divines of that period, 

 both at home and abroad, were alinoiV univerfally agreed. 

 After the reftoration, Mr. BaiUie was appointed, ia 

 1661, principal of the univerfity of Glafgow; but it is 

 faid that a bilhopric was offered him, which he abfoluteljr 

 refufed. In the courfe of the year i6'''2, his health began 

 to decline ; and during his ilhicfs he was vifited by the newly 

 created archbiihop of Glafgow, whom he addreffed in the 

 following uncourtly language: '• Mr. Andrew (I will cot 

 call you my lord), king Charles would have madr m.e one 

 of tliele lords; but I do not rind in the New Teftament 

 that Chrift has any lords in his Loufe." In July of this 

 year Mr. Baillic died at the age of lixty-three vears. His 

 charader was not more dilUnguillied by his loyalty, than by 

 his zeal for preibyterv, and his averhon to prelacy; and he 

 feems to have been actuated, in a very coniiderdble degree, 

 by the into'emnt Ipiiit of the age in which he lived, la 

 Ins letters, he every where ncanilclls his dillike of letlaries; 

 and he hardly omits any convenient opfKjrtunity cf (hewing 

 his dilapprc'bat'on c>t the doctrine of toleration. He had 

 nlib imbibed a cciuidcraLlc puiuon of that entbuliallical 



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